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Wonder if there is there anybody who is making an offline app with request-reponse with html(with HTMX) and a virtual server defined in a service worker?
I use this pattern for all my personal apps. I use my own little htmx-like library though. But wouldn't be that hard to swap in HTMX.
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This is a great question. I love htmx but in situations that have to work offline I can't use it. Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker.
> Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker. This is exactly why some people build heavy offline-first SPAs in JS. HTMX tries to avoid this entirely. Conceptually (seen from the perspective of HTMX), it makes zero sense to put the server code in a worker and run a client-server architecture in the client‘s browser. This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to av…
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> Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker. This is exactly why some people build heavy offline-first SPAs in JS. HTMX tries to avoid this entirely. Conceptually (seen from the perspective of HTMX), it makes zero sense to put the server code in a worker and run a client-server architecture in the client‘s browser. This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to av…
I'm not sure "zero sense" is true. An app designed around REST and hypermedia imposes sensible constraints, like how you handle state, navigation, etc., and this can still yield plenty of benefits.
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I am not sure if I understand the definition of offline here. HTMX has graceful degradation options. What else could you do when the client is offline?
There are many apps that work when the user is entirely offline and HTMX is not a good option if that is a key requirement of your app. Figma is an example.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to move the whole HATEOAS thing towards things like desktop and mobile apps. Might be a fun experiment.
Finally a way to use HTMX as a SPA framework ;)